8-letter words containing y, e, a, r
- saddlery — saddles, harnesses, and other equipment for horses.
- saleyard — an area with pens for holding animals before auction
- samplery — the making of samplers
- savagery — an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity.
- scarcely — barely; hardly; not quite: The light is so dim we can scarcely see.
- scattery — characterized by scattering or dispersion
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- serially — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- sexenary — senary.
- shattery — (of rock or soil) liable to shatter or crumble
- siserary — a scolding
- slabbery — slobbery.
- slattery — slovenly
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- snailery — a place where snails are bred
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- squarely — in a square shape, form, or manner.
- staggery — tending to stagger
- star key — a push button on a telephone or other electronic device that is marked with an asterisk, often in the lower left-hand area.
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- surveyal — the action of surveying
- swannery — a place where swans are raised.
- swear by — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sybarite — (usually lowercase) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- sylvaner — a white grape grown in the Alsace region of France and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
- syracuse — a city in central New York.
- tapestry — a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.
- tax year — A tax year is a particular period of twelve months which is used by the government as a basis for calculating taxes and for organizing its finances and accounts. In Britain, the tax year begins on April 6th and ends on April 5th. In the United States, the tax year begins on January 1st and ends on December 31st.
- taxpayer — a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.
- tayberry — a hybrid shrub produced by crossing a blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry
- tea tray — a tray for carrying or holding articles used in serving tea.
- teaberry — the spicy red fruit of the American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
- tearaway — designed to be easily separated or opened by tearing: a box with a tearaway seal.
- tenantry — tenants collectively; the body of tenants on an estate.
- terabyte — 2 40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes; 1024 gigabytes.
- teriyaki — a dish of grilled slices of beef, chicken, or fish that have been marinated in soy sauce seasoned with sake, ginger, and sugar.
- term day — a fixed or appointed day, as for the payment of money due; a quarter day.
- tertiary — of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third.
- textuary — of or relating to a text; textual.
- the yard — Scotland Yard
- thearchy — the rule or government of God or of a god.
- toymaker — a person who makes toys.
- trachyte — a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting essentially of alkali feldspar and one or more subordinate minerals, as hornblende or mica: the extrusive equivalent of syenite.
- travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
- traybake — a flat, usually chewy cake which is baked in a tray, cut into small squares, and served as a biscuit
- treasury — a place where the funds of the government, of a corporation, or the like are deposited, kept, and disbursed.